Posted on 05/09/2024 4:43:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The answer is deeper than you would think.
As pro-Hamas protests sweep U.S. campuses across our nation, a curious phenomenon has surfaced: a large number of the protesters are wearing not only the keffiyeh, but also the COVID mask. Why is this, exactly?
The keffiyeh-wearing is not much of a mystery. The protesters are clearly making a statement of solidarity with Islamic jihad in general and with Hamas terror in particular. But the COVID masks add an intriguing twist. Some of the mask-wearers themselves maintain that they are trying to “stay safe” — in what they believe is the ongoing COVID “pandemic.” Other observers have postulated, however, that this is an effort by the protesters to hide their identity.
There are possible elements of truth in both of these reasons, but beneath these layers, something much deeper is going on — and it involves a powerful impulse that serves as the foundation of leftist utopianism itself.
We would do well to reflect upon the manner in which the Maoist Cultural Revolution in China imposed unisex desexualized dress on its citizens. The tyranny perpetrated this as a ruthless war on gender differences and individuality in the name of “equity.” And this war involved a calculated assault on the possibilities of private attractions, affections, and desires.
The central reality to gauge here is that unisex/desexualized dress satisfies leftists’ morbid pining for enforced sameness. It is crucial, in their world, to erase physical as well as emotional differences and attractions between people. In the utopian endgame, humans must all be replicas of one another and be devoted to the cause, the revolutionary state, and to its all-knowing administering of “equality” and “social justice.”
It is no surprise, therefore, that Western leftists were enthralled with the Maoist social engineering experiment.
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Yes, there are many Maoists among us. The masks make them easy to spot.
To hide their identities.
It’s also a tactic to give the impression that they could be anywhere if you didn’t know who they were.
Yeah, but are they bullet proof?
Klantifa wears masks for the same reason the Klan wore hoods. So they can commit crimes and especially violent crimes with impunity.
Maybe to hide their ugly mugs?
I did a very basic Google Search on the Bible word hypocrite, and it basically was ONE THAT COVERS HIS FACE...
Interesting.
Very good, informative article. Thanks for posting.
Individual v criminal/gang/mob/collective/totalitarian
Citizen v government
Trump should nationalize the KKK anti masking laws found in southern states via executive order on day one. The Hamas terrorist rats will run back to their holes from sun light.
They have always worn masks. Back when Free Republic had Freeps there would always be left wingers wearing bandanas or masks in the parade of indecents
“... observers have postulated, however, that this is an effort by the protesters to hide their identity.”
Ya think? Geeezz ... It is so very annoying how the media always seem to be the last to realize the truth and then they tip-toe up to it by couching the obviousness in mealy mouth words and feigned surprise. Traitorous pu$$ies ...
Don’t forget most of them were wearing masks to Virtue Signal.
BTTT
bkmk
the Maoist social engineering experiment.
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Which in China erased all of the old Chinese culture and all of the institutions. And then went on to starve millions, while proclaiming surpluses, and generally setting the nation back decades.
The little snots wear the mask in order to say, “Go #### yourselves.”
If you are confronted by the mask-wearing hate brigades, your first duty is to rip off the mask.
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